Improvement in wine-presses



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Wine-Prgsses.

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UNITED ,4 STATES EDWARD HOWLAN'D, OF HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN WINE-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,456, dated November 11, 1873; application tiled June 3, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD HOWLAND, of Hammonton, in the county of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Fruit-Press; and I do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, and being a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a v cross-section of the press-rolls, the juice-tub, and a portion of the frame.

llivering the fruit thereto, while it also serves to strain the juice; and it consists in the pecu liar construction and arrangement, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing, A A' represent two pairs of standards, each pair forming one end of a frame by being connected by longitudinal girts c a at the sides, and by cross-braces b b, the

` lower pairs of which may be rollers, if so preferred. B is a wooden roller journaled in the standards A, and may be rotated by a crank, as shown, or by a belt from any convenient source of power. B is a similar roll journaled in said standards above the roll B, its boxes or bearings having free play vertically in the recesses formed in said standards to receive them, the said roll B pressing, or resting with a pressure due to its weight, upon the roll B. In certain cases, where greater pressure is required, Vit may be obtained by springs acting upon the cap-bearings of the journals of the said roll B', or in any other convenient manner. Each roll is covered with a blanket composed of several thicknesses of some textile fabric, or, if preferred, with one of elastic gutta-percha. C is an endless belt, of some suitable textile fabric, passing between the rolls down around the lower cross-brace of the roll. It may also be provided with a cock or siphon to draw off the expressed juice.

The fruit to be crushed is placed upon the upper surface of the belt, which carries it to and between the rolls, Vwhich crush it and express the juice before passing it out from between them, the juice falling back down the face of the lower roll into the tub, first passing through the belt, which strains it from i1npurities, which are discharged, with the pulp, at the end of the machine.

Aside from the cheapness of its construction, this press, by reason of the continuity of its operation, has great capacity, requires but little power to operate it, and strains the juice in the process of expressing. `While extracting all, or nearly all, the juice, the seeds are' not crushed, by reason of theelastic blankets with which the rolls are clothed.

What I claim as my invention', and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

' The construction and arrangement within the frame of the press-rolls B B', covered with the yielding blankets, and the textile endless4 belt G,- substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

EDWARD HOWLAND. Witnesses G. F. SAxTER, A. J. KING. 

